A. E. Housman Quotes
Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I just can't read music.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
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When I was in Norway, we were there for two days, and I didn't sleep one hour there. I stayed up and watched the sunset, then watched it rise again. It was crazy, but I just loved it so much.
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We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
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I have a green juice every day because it makes me feel more awake; it makes my skin healthier.
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Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.
